PRIV P53 Widget Pictured-Categories

Functionality 1: Show Category Picture for the Widget

Front-end

Requirement: Show a thumbnail on top left or bottom right of widgets

Examples:

FAZ Example

Case1: Thumbnail Bottom Right - Click to enlarge

Widget without Thumbnails

Case2: Thumbnail Top Left - Click to enlarge

Backend Functionality: Pro and Light Version

We provide an additional functionality to recent posts wizards  that are often available on the market.

Our additional functionality is to show category picture on the wizard.

The following screenshot contains a proposal how to distinguish between functionality for Pictured Category Light and Pictured Category Pro.

Pictured Category Widget

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Pro Functionality: Choice of Picture for Each Post

Usually widgets show the featured picture for each post . With our pictured category widget, we provide an additional option inside the Pictured Category Pro Version.

The user is able to choose whether we show:

• Value 1 (Light version): Featured image for all the posts in the widget
• Value 2 (Light version): No featured Image
• Value3 (Pro version): The author avatar of the author of the posts

For the three values we better use a drop-down box.

2 or 3 Values

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Multi-author blog

A multi-author blog would show the author avatar instead of the featured image for each post.

Syndicated Blog

Picture Category Widget on Multi-Author-Blog - Click to enlarge

Author Images as Featured Images for each post

London School of Economics uses Author Images as Featured Images for each post - Click to enlarge

Testing

Do the same thing as economic blogs

Step 1: Export

use a new export of snbchf.com to test.snbchf.com

Step2: categories as widget

use the categories that have a category picture and that are in the menu

do testing

I will take a look after that

Step3: Define Building Blocks with Site Origin

use the categories for building blocks that have a category picture and that are in the menu

do testing

I will take a look after that

Bugs and new functionality

B1) Save button

The Save button must save all wizards, not only the wizard where we are currently editing. If not “empty wizards” remain.

This is core WP functionality and we can’t do anything there. This will remain

B2) Category Pics do not show on Austrian

FIXED

We must integrate the whole Pic cat plugin into Austrian – the widgets, the pic cat, the logos and etc. This must be done with Rad, so he will change the pic cat, widgets and etc with the new one.

F1) The “Order By” Parameter

Inside the wizard backend, we would like to specify the order of posts/pages.
Typical orders like publishing date, change date, author, … (what else?)
DESC or ASC

FIXED

Empty Category Cat Wizard

An empty category wizard - Click to enlarge

F2) Choice between pages, posts or both

The wizard shall show have a parameter
choices: posts, pages, both

FIXED

F3) Category order in backend

In the backend we are able to choose exactly one category.

Requirement 1:
The categories shall be ordered by

1.  category description ASC and
2. category name ASC

We show the category name.

Requirement 2:
The hierarchy level shall be visible like when adding categories to the WP menu.

Category Order

Showing categories hierarchically - Click to enlarge

Developer’s feedback

The specification looks good. it is possible to be done in that way.